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Born February 9, 1827 • Northampton • Massachusetts
Died June 7, 1894 (aged 67) • New Haven • Connecticut
Subjects Of Study Sanskrit language • language
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Theodor Benfey
German scholar
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Hermann Collitz
American linguist
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Francis Andrew March
American scholar and lexicographer
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Charles Rockwell Lanman
American scholar
Max Müller
Max Müller
German scholar
Schlegel, Friedrich von
Friedrich von Schlegel
German writer
Rask, detail of a lithograph
Rasmus Rask
Danish language scholar
August Schleicher
August Schleicher
German linguist
Bopp
Franz Bopp
German philologist
Wackernagel, Jacob
Jacob Wackernagel
Swiss linguist
Berthold Delbrück
Berthold Delbrück
German linguist
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Wilhelm Streitberg
German linguist
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James Owen Dorsey
American ethnologist
Schlegel, August Wilhelm von
August Wilhelm von Schlegel
German scholar and critic
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Adamántios Koraïs
Greek scholar
F.W. Ritschl, engraving
F.W. Ritschl
German scholar
Grassmann, Hermann Günther
Hermann Günther Grassmann
German mathematician
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Antoine Meillet
French linguist
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Sir William Jones
British orientalist and jurist
Menéndez Pidal, Ramón
Ramón Menéndez Pidal
Spanish scholar